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Английская детская песня: What are little boys and girls made of? / Мальчики и девочки (с переводом в стихах)
What are little boys and girls made of?
What are little boys made of?
What are little boys made of?
Frogs and snails
And puppy-dogs’ tails,
That’s what little boys are made of.
What are little girls made of?
What are little girls made of?
Sugar and spice
And all that’s nice,
That’s what little girls are made of.
Словарик к стихотворению
make (made; made) – делать, создавать
nice – хороший, приятный, милый, славный
spice – специя, пряность
Мальчики и девочки
(перевод С. Я. Маршака)
Из чего только сделаны мальчики?
Из чего только сделаны мальчики?
Из колючек, ракушек и зеленых лягушек –
Вот из этого сделаны мальчики.
Из чего только сделаны девочки?
Из чего только сделаны девочки?
Из конфет, и пирожных, и сластей всевозможных –
Вот из этого сделаны девочки.
О стихотворении What Are Little Boys Made Of? / Из чего сделаны мальчики?
What Are Little Boys Made Of? – популярный детский стишок, известный с начала 19-го столетия. В 1842 году он был включён в коллекцию собирателя английского фольклора Джеймса Холлиуэлла.
Стихотворение имеет много различных вариаций. Например, в разных версиях «ингредиентами» мальчишек были: слизняки (slugs), змеи (snakes) и лоскутки (snips). В самом раннем варианте мальчики состояли из обрывков (snips) или угрей (snigs – диалектное название небольших угрей).
Это детское стихотворение можно рассматривать как часть большого произведения, которое называется «Из чего сделаны люди?» или «Из чего сделан мир?» (в колонке справа). В нём описывается из чего состоят: младенцы, молодые мужчины и женщины, моряки, солдаты, няньки, отцы, матери, старики и старухи, а также люди в целом. Считается, что к первоначальному стихотворению о мальчиках со временем были добавлены новые стихи, написанные неизвестными авторами.
Авторство же строк о том, из чего сделаны девочки, приписывают английскому поэту, представителю «озёрной школы» Роберту Саути (1774–1843):
What are little girls made of, made of?
What are little girls made of?
Sugar and spice and everything nice;
That’s what little girls are made of.
What Folks Are Made Of / Из чего сделаны люди?
What are little babies made of, made of?
What are little babies made of?
Diapers and crumbs and sucking their thumbs;
That’s what little babies are made of?
What are young men made of, made of?
What are young men made of?
Sighs and leers and crocodile tears;
That’s what young men are made of.
What are young women made of, made of?
What are young women made of?
Rings and jings and other fine things;
That’s what young women are made of.
What are our sailors made of, made of?
What are our sailors made of?
Pitch and tar, pig-tail and scar;
That’s what our sailors are made of.
What are our soldiers made of, made of?
What are our soldiers made of?
Pipeclay and drill, the foeman to kill;
That’s what our soldiers are made of.
What are our nurses made of, made of?
What are our nurses made of?
Bushes and thorns and old cow’s horns;
That’s what our nurses are made of.
What are our fathers made of, made of?
What are our fathers made of?
Pipes and smoke and collars choke;
That’s what our fathers are made of.
What are our mothers made of, made of?
What are our mothers made of?
Ribbons and laces and sweet pretty faces;
That’s what our mothers are made of.
What are old men made of, made of?
What are old men made of?
Slippers that flop and a bald-headed top;
That’s what old men are made of.
What are old women made of, made of?
What are old women made of?
Reels, and jeels, and old spinning wheels;
That’s what old women are made of?
What are all folks made of, made of?
What are all folks made of?
Fighting a spot and loving a lot,
That’s what all folks are made of.
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Marge Piercy
What Are Big Girls Made Of?
The construction of a woman:
a woman is not made of flesh
of bone and sinew
belly and breasts, elbows and liver and toe.
She is manufactured like a sports sedan.
She is retooled, refitted and redesigned
every decade.
Cecile had been seduction itself in college.
She wriggled through bars like a satin eel,
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She visited in ’68 still wearing skirts
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while I danced through Manhattan in mini skirt,
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hair loose as a horse’s mane. Oh dear,
I thought in my superiority of the moment,
whatever has happened to poor Cecile?
She was out of fashion, out of the game,
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membered from the club of desire.
Look at pictures in French fashion
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century of the ultimate lady
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Paniers bring her hips out three feet
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and the belly flattened under wood.
The breasts are stuffed up and out
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The tiny foot is encased in a slipper
never meant for walking.
On top is a grandiose headache:
hair like a museum piece, daily
ornamented with ribbons, vases,
grottoes, mountains, frigates in full
sail, balloons, baboons, the fancy
of a hairdresser turned loose.
The hats were rococo wedding cakes
that would dim the Las Vegas strip.
Here is a woman forced into shape
rigid exoskeleton torturing flesh:
a woman made of pain.
How superior we are now: see the modern woman
thin as a blade of scissors.
She runs on a treadmill every morning,
fits herself into machines of weights
and pulleys to heave and grunt,
an image in her mind she can never
approximate, a body of rosy
glass that never wrinkles,
never grows, never fades. She
sits at the table closing her eyes to food
hungry, always hungry:
a woman made of pain.
A cat or dog approaches another,
they sniff noses. They sniff asses.
They bristle or lick. They fall
in love as often as we do,
as passionately. But they fall
in love or lust with furry flesh,
not hoop skirts or push up bras
rib removal or liposuction.
It is not for male or female dogs
that poodles are clipped
to topiary hedges.
If only we could like each other raw.
If only we could love ourselves
like healthy babies burbling in our arms.
If only we were not programmed and reprogrammed
to need what is sold us.
Why should we want to live inside ads?
Why should we want to scourge our softness
to straight lines like a Mondrian painting?
Why should we punish each other with scorn
as if to have a large ass
were worse than being greedy or mean?
When will women not be compelled
to view their bodies as science projects,
gardens to be weeded,
dogs to be trained?
When will a woman cease
to be made of pain?